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Additional assistance with the Teradata article
Hello! Not too long ago, you helped me with an edit request to update the Teradata article, which I submitted on behalf of my employer. My initial requests were well received, but my later ones (all answered by the same editor) have been disappointing. I've struggled to get the reviewing editor to reconsider my proposed improvements or offer further feedback, even when I've suggested alternatives. I am specifically referring to this request to update the "Technology and products" section, and this request to create an "Acquisitions and divestitures" subsection within the "History" section.

For the first, I've suggested different sourcing, and provided alternative wording for consideration, but the editor declined to reply. For the second, I proposed no major content changes, and instead of actually implementing my request (which they said they did), the editor changed the entire history section into bullet points. I'm afraid the article looks worse than before. I replied to the editor, asking for the bullet point to be converted into prose, but I did not receive any reply. I am wondering if you might have a moment to take another look at this article and my requests, as a member of the Database WikiProject? You might consider looking at the pre-bullet point version of the article, for context. Thanks for advance for any assistance. Dodds_Writer (Talk &middot; Disclosure: Employee of Teradata) 16:30, 2 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I did see how your requested edits were being handled, and I don't have the experience to know if they're being handled "wikipedia correct". I actually privately inquired with the editor in question about how I handled your requested edits for my own education, and they kindly pointed out instances where I should have done a more careful job.  Thus, I don't believe I do nor should have the authority to overrule them.  I'm all for the content of pages being improved, and I'm sympathetic to what you're trying to do, but I'm unfortunately going to be of less help than you'd like on this matter though.


 * I believe the best I can do for you is suggest other ways forward. You can try working through things a bit more with Spintendo, and let us assume that Spintendo also has the best of intentions for Wikipedia.  It's potentially arguable that the changes made to the page were modifications of your request, which the guidelines of how to handle edit requests caution about not making any substantial changes.  You might have luck in just flipping the edit request template back to requesting an edit, either to get attention again or possibly get a different editor to look over the work.  As a last option, looking through the other people that have signed up under the Databases WikiProject, User:Seraphimblade seems to be the only person that's active and would have an idea of what "being wikipedia" is.  I'd suggest that if you do reach out, it'd be better to do so just as a request for help in moderating the discussion, as the intention shouldn't be to overrule any of Spintendo's concerns.


 * I'm sadly unsure of what I can actually do to help otherwise, but if there is anything, feel free to ping again and we'll figure things out. Linearizable (talk) 06:25, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, Linearizable, and for your suggested paths to move forward. I think I will reach out to User:Seraphimblade for additional feedback. If he is not interested in helping out, I will try again to have the bullet points converted to prose by submitting another edit request. Thanks again. Dodds_Writer (Talk &middot; Disclosure: Employee of Teradata) 18:23, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * I'm way behind looking at the Teahouse archives but I just saw this. Did you ever get your answer? You ask a lot of complicated questions that I wouldn't know how to answer, but from what I can tell, as long as mostly secondary sources are used, primary sources can be used for non-controversial information. At some point, though, primary sources would be original research without secondary sources to allow interpretation. That's about as far as I can go and you seem to have a better understanding of all this than I do.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  19:52, 31 January 2019 (UTC)